A441 crash in Redditch on 13 September 2017 at 12:40 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo crashed on the A441 in Redditch at 12:40 on Wednesday 13 September 2017. The 35-year-old female driver, a 56-year-old male passenger and a 2-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Sep 2017
- Wednesday, 12:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.26902, longitude -1.93922, in the B97 postcode district and within the built-up area of Redditch.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017220224327
- Council area
- Redditch
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Worcestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 441
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 May 2001.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A441 in Redditch, 15 May 2001
20 m awayRef 200122BD19724
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A441 in Redditch, 22 March 1996
30 m awayRef 199622BV01514
Slight
Car crash on the A441 in Redditch, 19 January 1979
38 m awayRef 1979220201050
Serious
Skoda Octavia crash on an unclassified road in Redditch, 9 December 2006
66 m awayRef 200622DE85329
Slight
Car crash on the A441 in Redditch, 26 April 1981
83 m awayRef 1981220204045
Slight
Van crash on the A441 in Redditch, 21 July 1986
87 m awayRef 1986220207025
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,400 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 56, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 2, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 2017220224327 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Redditch road accident statistics for 2017.